treatment

The TREATNET Quality Standards are based on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Principles of Drug Dependence Treatment and Care. They represent a set of evidence-based standards for drug-dependence treatment. Click here to...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) presents its Principles of Adolescent Drug Addiction Treatment. The document focuses exclusively on the realities of substance use among youth (12 to 17 years). Illegal substances, prescription...

Multidimensional family therapy addresses: Mental health, substance use and other behavioural issues affecting young people The parents’ childrearing skills/personal functioning Parent-child communication/relationship Family members' social...

Final cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. The theme is set by an Australian review which argues that despite radically different starting points, criminal justice and treatment systems must collaborate to deliver treatment. We invite you...

This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the...

Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...